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3232Foreign Minister: Hungary’s Gas Supplies Secured for next Yearhttps://hungarytoday.hu/foreign-minister-hungarys-gas-supplies-secured-for-next-year/
https://hungarytoday.hu/foreign-minister-hungarys-gas-supplies-secured-for-next-year/#respondThu, 21 Mar 2019 13:47:16 +0000https://hungarytoday.hu/?p=56441Hungary’s gas supplies are secured for next year even if Moscow and Kiev fail to sign a new gas transit deal by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after talks with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in Moscow on Thursday. “Today we signed an agreement with the CEO of Gazprom ensuring that […]

]]>Hungary’s gas supplies are secured for next year even if Moscow and Kiev fail to sign a new gas transit deal by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after talks with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in Moscow on Thursday.

“Today we signed an agreement with the CEO of Gazprom ensuring that the company will supply Hungary with gas next year regardless of whether or not Russia and Ukraine sign a new transit deal,” Szijjártó told MTI.

“The issue of energy supply has taken on a geopolitical dimension with the expiration of the transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine at the end of the year and the absence of a new deal,” the minister said. “So the situation may arise that Russia will stop delivering gas to Europe via Ukraine. This is what we have to prepare for because we always have to prepare for the worst-case scenario when we’re planning the country’s energy supplies.”

Hungary will next year again purchase a portion of its gas imports through Austria, Szijjártó said, adding that Hungary will also have to use its “unmatched gas storage capacities” to its advantage. He noted that Hungarian reservoirs can store 6.3 billion cubic metres of natural gas.

Hungary has also agreed to purchase the gas to be stored for 2020 before the end of the year, he added.

As regards Hungary’s long-term energy security, Szijjarto said the government was counting on the eventual availability of a new southern gas supply route. Gazprom is working with Bulgaria and Serbia on delivering gas to Hungary and Austria via the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, he noted. The minister vowed that Hungary will have the necessary infrastructure for that supply route ready by the beginning of next year.

Szijjártó said Miller had told him that Gazprom was not expecting any delays in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, with one-third of the pipeline already completed. Concerning Turkish Stream, Miller said Gazprom was in advanced talks with Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, and that the completion of the new supply route was “completely realistic”.

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https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-opens-foreign-trade-mission-in-jerusalem/#respondTue, 19 Mar 2019 14:35:55 +0000https://hungarytoday.hu/?p=56176Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Hungary’s foreign trade mission in Jerusalem on Tuesday. In his speech at the opening ceremony, Szijjártó emphasised Hungary and Israel’s “true friendship”, saying that the trade mission and the organisation of a Hungarian cultural year in the country were signs of the significance […]

In his speech at the opening ceremony, Szijjártó emphasised Hungary and Israel’s “true friendship”, saying that the trade mission and the organisation of a Hungarian cultural year in the country were signs of the significance Hungary attaches to its relationship with Israel.

The global economy and world politics are undergoing major and swift changes, Szijjártó said, adding that these changes were having a big impact on small open economies like Hungary.

Photo by Mitko Sztojcsev/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Hungarian economy, he said, “is entering a new dimension” in which the focus would be on innovation.

Israeli companies develop and use the most state-of-the-art technologies, and it is in the interest of Hungary and Hungarian firms to cooperate closely with them, the minister said. This is why, he said, Hungary had decided to open a trade mission in Jerusalem.

Szijjártó said Hungary’s Eximbank has opened a 555 million euro credit line to promote bilateral business ties.

Photo by Mitko Sztojcsev/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

As regards the two countries’ friendship, the minister said Hungary had always fought for a “fair and balanced approach” to Israel on the part of the international community.

Szijjártó added that Hungary will not implement the European Commission’s decision to label products from Israeli settlements. Hungary believes that closer and more dynamic cooperation is needed between the European Union and Israel, he said.

Netanyahu also underscored the significance of the trade mission, noting that the announcement of the mission’s opening had been made by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán when he visited Jerusalem last month.

Netanyahu said the two countries’ friendship and trade relations were closer than ever before.

The prime minister expressed his gratitude for Hungary’s support for Israel at international forums and its strong stand against anti-Semitism.

On the featured photo: Péter Szijjártó and Benjamin Netanyahu opening the trade mission. Photo by Mitko Sztojcsev/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Israeli companies are satisfied with the environment for doing business in Hungary as well as with their cooperation with the government, Szijjártó told MTI by phone. The corporate executives have stressed the importance of the highly-skilled local labour force and the competitiveness of Hungary’s low corporate tax rate, he added.

Currently, 200 Israeli companies employ 5,500 people in Hungary, he said. Trade between the two countries was over 525 million US dollars in 2018, with Hungarian exports having exceeded 300 million dollars for the last 10 years, he said.

Hungary plays an important role in the business strategy of these companies, nearly all of which plan to expand their Hungarian bases, he said. “In doing so, they create further jobs, boost Hungary’s technological level and contribute to the country’s rise among the winners of a new economic era based on those technologies,” he added.

On the featured photo: TEva CEO Kare Schultz and Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó. Photo by Mitko Sztojcsev/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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https://hungarytoday.hu/foreign-minister-proof-surfaces-of-attempts-to-make-un-migration-compact-mandatory/#respondTue, 19 Mar 2019 08:45:25 +0000https://hungarytoday.hu/?p=56096“Tangible proof” has surfaced indicating that several committed supporters of the UN’s migration compact want to make the pact mandatory for every EU member state, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told a press conference on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. A “secret document” has been published on work […]

]]>“Tangible proof” has surfaced indicating that several committed supporters of the UN’s migration compact want to make the pact mandatory for every EU member state, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told a press conference on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.

A “secret document” has been published on work by the European Commission’s legal service to formulate “lengthy and devious” legal grounds for suggesting that the compact is, after all, mandatory for EU member states, he said.

Although the document was not released the way the EC would have wanted it to be, Szijjártó said, the commission “has confirmed its existence”.

“It is Hungary’s clear conviction that the package is not binding,” the minister added.

The Foreign Minister insisted that the EC intends to have the EU’s development policies implemented on the basis of the goals of the migration compact. The document also mandates that member states must contribute to achieving the EU’s goals, including the implementation of the migration compact, Szijjártó said.

The minister said it was clear that the compact had supporters in Brussels, arguing that “it is rare that legal opinions like this are not ordered publications”.

This means that the battle hasn’t ended. In fact, there’s a new battle starting against Brussels’ secret pro-migration plans”

Hungary holds firm on its refusal to carry out “a single word or sentence” of the global migration compact, the minister said.

In response to a question on another subject, Szijjártó said Hungary’s ruling Fidesz was the most successful member of the European People’s Party, arguing that it won three consecutive general elections.

“Fidesz, which wants to remain a member of the EPP, would like to be a part of the debate that is not just about the future of the European Union, but also the position to be represented by the EPP in the future,” he added.

On the featured photo: FM Péter Szijjártó and Stef Blok, the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, in Brussels. Photo by Mitko Sztojcsev/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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https://hungarytoday.hu/foreign-minister-new-football-pitches-academies-halls-to-be-built-in-carpathian-basin/#respondMon, 18 Mar 2019 11:07:38 +0000https://hungarytoday.hu/?p=55942New football pitches, academies and halls will be built throughout the Carpathian Basin, including in areas beyond the borders where large ethnic Hungarian communities live, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday at the opening of an astroturf football pitch built with Hungarian government support in Nyárádszereda (Miercurea Nirajului). Hungarians have always loved sport and […]

]]>New football pitches, academies and halls will be built throughout the Carpathian Basin, including in areas beyond the borders where large ethnic Hungarian communities live, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday at the opening of an astroturf football pitch built with Hungarian government support in Nyárádszereda (Miercurea Nirajului).

Hungarians have always loved sport and now also want to become a sporting nation, he said.

That is why we are building academies, to enable young people to develop under the best possible circumstances, enjoying every single aspect of spiritual and moral training”

Szijjártó said young people throughout the Carpathian Basin can rely on Hungary’s support. The government considers it an obligation to look after them in the areas of sport, education and culture. He added that the government had great respect for the work carried out by the Szekler Soccer Academy.